1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 5, 9:20 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
920 AM EST MON NOV 5 2001
STILL STRONG WINDS AT THE COAST SO WILL LEAVE TROPICAL STORM
WARNINGS FOR THE EAST COAST AND THE PUBLIC WIND ADVISORY UNTIL MAYBE
THE MIDDAY HURRICANE ADVISORY. SO WILL WAIT TO UPDATE THE ZONES
UNTIL THE WARNINGS HAVE BEEN DROPPED. THEN WILL BE ABLE TO CLEAN UP
THE WORDING ON THE MORNING PRECIPITATION AND CLOUDINESS AS THE
REMAINDER OF THE ZONE FORECASTS LOOK GOOD.
BASED ON ALL THE C-MAN, SHIP AND BUOY REPORTS WILL BASICALLY LEAVE
THE COASTAL WATERS UNCHANGED.
.MIA...TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM JUPITER INLET TO OCEAN REEF THIS
MORNING.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR WEST COAST AND LAKE OKEECHOBEE.
WIND ADVISORY FOR ALL OF PALM BEACH...BROWARD...MIAMI DADE
AND MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES TODAY.AMZ610-630-650-651-670-671-FLZ063-066>075-GMZ656-657-676-051800- SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 500 AM EST MON NOV 5 2001 ...TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR COASTAL LOCATIONS OF MIAMI-DADE... BROWARD...AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES... ...WIND ADVISORY FOR INLAND LOCATIONS OF MIAMI-DADE...BROWARD...PALM BEACH...AND MAINLAND MONROE COUNTIES TODAY... ...RIP CURRENTS LIKELY ALL EAST COAST BEACHES THROUGH MONDAY... ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST...A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM JUPITER INLET TO OCEAN REEF...INCLUDING THE METROPOLITAN AREAS OF MIAMI-DADE...BROWARD AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES. THE TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR FLORIDA BAY WHICH INCLUDES THE SOUTH COAST OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. TROPICAL STORM MICHELLE WILL BE CLOSEST TO SOUTHEAST FLORIDA EARLY THIS MORNING AND WILL BE ACCELERATING AWAY FROM THE STATE BY THIS AFTERNOON. WEATHER CONDITIONS WILL BE IMPROVING ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST THIS AFTERNOON. EAST OF I-95 THE WIND WILL CONTINUE 30 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 50 MPH POSSIBLE UNTIL AFTERNOON WHEN THE WINDS WILL SLOWLY BEGIN TO DIMINISH. ALONG AND WEST OF I-95...NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BE 20 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 35 MPH POSSIBLE UNTIL AFTERNOON WHEN THE WINDS WILL BE DIMINISHING. BY THIS EVENING...THE WINDS ACROSS ALL OF METRO SOUTHEAST FLORIDA SHOULD BACK AROUND TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH. COASTAL FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA COAST ESPECIALLY AT THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE. THE NEXT HIGH TIDE WILL BE AROUND 10 TO 11 AM. BEACH EROSION WILL CONTINUE TODAY DUE TO THE HEAVY SURF. THE PROBLEM WILL CONTINUE TO BE MOST CRITICAL ALONG SOUTH BROWARD COUNTY. RIP CURRENTS REMAIN LIKELY ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA BEACHES. THE LOCATION AND DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT OF MICHELLE MAKES IT UNLIKELY THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES WILL OCCUR IN SOUTH FLORIDA AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MIA.
The Miami radar (KAMX), 21 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:24 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A waterspout associated with an outer rain band of hurricane Michelle moved ashore near Bill Baggs Beach, destroyed two Chickee huts, then moved offshore into the Atlantic.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Florida, 2001Warnings in Florida, November 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5272144.